how can compassion, inclusiveness, and empathy be on the losing side

roxane gay on trump’s victory:

As I watch the election results come in, I am stunned. I was confident, not only because of who Mrs. Clinton is. I was confident because I thought there were more Americans who believe in progress and equality than there were Americans who were racist, xenophobic, misogynistic and homophobic. This is a generalization, but it’s hard to feel otherwise.

i do feel incredibly anxious about trump and his presidency, but you have to wonder why there were so many people who felt desperate enough to look for answers in a climate-change-denying, misogynistic, racist, 1%er. as cracked said:

They don’t need your sympathy, they don’t need your thinkpieces. They need fucking jobs. They need to feel like they’re not getting left behind and they need to not actually get left behind. The system needs to change, and only one candidate promised them it would.